At Russell’s Hall Hospital, our Elderly Care Department provides compassionate, expert care tailored to the unique needs of older adults. With a team of highly skilled doctors, nurses, and specialists, we offer comprehensive assessment and treatment plans designed to enhance quality of life, promote independence, and support families every step of the way.
This is an exciting time to join the Elderly care team as weplan toexpandthe Elderly care and Frailty services in Dudley. These newly created roles will be based in the Acute Frailty Unit (FAU), a specialist facility equipped with 8 chairs and 4 beds, where you will have the opportunity to make a real impact by reviewing daily acute referrals and providing expert care in a fast-paced, supportive environment.
This is more than just a clinical role—you will have the opportunity to shape the future of elderly care through active involvement in training and supervising resident doctors, participating in audits and clinical governance, and contributing to the ongoing development of our Elderly Care and Frailty services.
If you’re passionate about elderly care and frailty medicine, eager to work in a dynamic team, and motivated to lead service innovation and research, this is an incredible opportunity to advance your career and make a lasting difference to patient care in Dudley.
Main duties of the job
As part of a multidisciplinary team including specialist nurses and junior doctors, you will work a 10 PA timetable, which includes running a weekly outpatient clinic for patients referred from FAU. Your responsibilities will extend to Elderly Care ward rounds (1 PA) and participating in the General Internal Medicine (GIM) weekend ward rounds (1:22 rota) with a rest day following weekend duties.
You will also be encouraged and supported to engage in exciting research projects, including active Parkinson’s disease studies and multi-centre trials. To ensure you can focus on delivering exceptional care, the post comes with adequate SPA time, secretarial support, and a dedicated office.
Post holder will be expected to manage an average daily in-patient case load of 14 patients in line with national consultant geriatrician workload benchmarks for acute frailty services
Post holder will be expected to manage an outpatient template consisting of 5 new casesand 7 follow ups
Working for our organisation
At the Dudley Group our patients and staff are at the heart of all that we do and that is to provide a world class service that aligns with our vision of “excellent health care, improved health for all”. We are seeking to recruit staff who share our vision and values of making Dudley Group an incredible workplace.
We are committed to becoming a diverse and an inclusive employer and where people feel sense of belonging. Seeking to expand diversity within our teams, we positively encourage applications from under-represented groups such as ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQ+ groups. We are also under-represented in-terms of gender within nursing roles and we would welcome applications from people from male and non-binary backgrounds.
Dudley Group offer many opportunities for our staff to develop and grow within their roles through our Learning & OD department. These include topics such as communication, wellbeing, team development, cultural competency, and values, plus much more. For those in a Management/Leadership role, there are additional programmes to support you to develop the skills you need. These include our Managers Essentials Programme and a Leadership Programme that all managers will attend as part of your Dudley Managers Induction. Our Learning Prospectus is a great way to discover the details behind what’s available for you here at The Dudley Group.
We are committed to home life balance through flexible working and making reasonable adjustments where possible
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details of the main duties and responsibilities that the post holder is required to undertake.
The Job Description is pending Royal College approval
Person specification
Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience
Essential criteria
1. •Degree from a recognised University
2. •MRCP (UK) or recognised equivalent qualification
Relevant registration requirements
Essential criteria
3. •Full GMC registration with a licence to practice
4. •Eligible for entry in GMC specialist register (within 6 months)
Relevant knowledge and experience requirements
Essential criteria
5. •Clinical training and experience equivalent to that required for gaining UK CCST/CST
6. •Ability to take full and independent responsibility for the care of patients and offer expert clinical opinion in the specialty
7. •Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
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Multi-site working
The four partner Trusts of the Black Country Provider Collaborative (Dudley Group NHS FT, Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust, Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, and Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust) are actively working in partnership to deliver a collective vision focused on providing "better, faster and safer care to the population of the Black Country and beyond".
To support this vision, we are (where appropriate and safe to do so) actively looking at new models of care which:
8. Better protect elective / planned care service delivery across the system by organising on a 'hot and cold' arrangement
9. Consider the optimal use of resources through consolidation and specialisation, and
10. Seek to reduce unwarranted variance, level up / standardise care through a 'Networked Service Solution' approach across the four sites
Against this context, although this post is hosted by The Dudley Group, there may be an expectation to work flexibly across the four partner Trusts to better meet patient and service needs.
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